Hyde or Practice

Y'ALL!!! We chatted with the incredible Hall Rockefeller, founder of Less Than Half , about expanding our knowledge, learnings from COVID times, and confidently pivoting! We all know how hard it is to get going on a project only to find something new and think "Oh no, do I have to change direction?" well, that is a feeling Rockefeller knows ALL TOO WELL, and she navigates them not only with confid...

Alexis and Erika speak with PR wiz Jessie Cohen about how PR works in the arts/creative industries! What does it mean to be resilient, can you become more resilient (spoiler alert: yes!), how to pitch your projects and how to write an email! Understanding the big, bad, media machine we are all working around or within is vital to your practice and Jessie is generous with her insight and wisdom! Tu...

Alexis and Erika speak with PR wiz Jessie Cohen about how PR works in the arts/creative industries! What does it mean to be resilient, can you become more resilient (spoiler alert: yes!), how to pitch your projects and how to write an email! Understanding the big, bad, media machine we are all working around or within is vital to your practice and Jessie is generous with her insight and wisdom! Tu...

This week we get the download from Hollie Hilton - Social Media Strategist EXTRAORDINAIRE -  about graduating during the pandemic, creating a space for herself, and helping EVERYONE navigate the potential trenches of social media. She works with everyone from artists, to galleries, to larger institutions on what their strategies should be and how to maximize their presence while also STA...

If you've been following Kennedy since before our interview or after you'll know she is doing incredible things! More shows ! NFTs ! Curating ! Going to take this opportunity to brag on her brilliant brain and share this episode again in case you haven't listened OR in case you need a refresher!  Alexis and Erika speak with artist Kennedy Yanko . If you're like many of us who are looking for...

Minutes after reading Dana Kopel's incredible article for The Baffler Against Artsploitation we knew we had to talk to her, see how she's doing, what she's learned, and if she would share with us these thoughts and we were lucky enough that she said YES! If you haven't read the article, click through and do a quick read, it is an incredible breakdown of what is happening at New Museum specifically...

To celebrate the opening of the Academy Museum here in LA we are putting out our incredible episode with Stephanie Willsey, who is the Exhibition Designer/Project Manager!  Welcome to Season 2 Episode 1! Erika and Alexis speak with Stephanie Willsey, currently a project manager at the soon to be opened Academy Museum , also an artist and a designer for Doug Aitken Workshop .  Stephanie i...

THIS WEEK! ALL CAPS! We talk with Bronwyn Mauldin, Director of Research and Evaluation for Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture , who is also an artist and activist and writer and zine maker and all around woman of our hearts and dreams! We get into the impact of covid on LA's arts community, the economy, and more! Did y'all know that the arts and culture fields make up 8% of the GDP...

It's here, the FIRST episode of SEASON 5! Had to take a bit of a breather while Erika moved to this side of the pond and it is worth the wait, we promise! This week we talk to Olivia Moore, the intrepid UX designer behind our very own To Practise a Practice ! What has she and WE learned during these panorama times? And by we I don't just mean our lovely hosts, but also US AS A GROUP! We are all in...

Talk about building a community, Virginia Broersma of the Artist's Office did just that and she built and built and built and now it's expanding! We go over what different artists need and the preconceived notions that revolve around those needs and how we can achieve them by guess what....LOOKING TO OTHERS! ASKING FOR HELP! OFFERING HELP! Easy in theory, hard in practice, let's go through th...

This week Erika and Alexis talk about how they are using the tips and advice from all of the previous interviewees to build their communities, www.topractisepractice.com  and the inaugural Quinn Emanuel Artist-in-Residence , respectively!  LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Alexis Hyde - @ hydeordie , alexishyde.com    Dr. Erika Wong; - @ topractisepractice , https://topractis...

This week we talk to Joshua Halstead who is a graphic designer and Assistant Professor of Disability and Design at Art Cente r and it is a mind-blowing TREAT! How do you feel about self-care as radical action? What about finding community as an act of resistance? Had you ever thought about it in those ways? Neither had Alexis and she lost her mind. He also talks to us about the shift from external...

This week we have multi-disciplinary artist TJ Dedeaux-Norris on and it is enlightening. We are talking about how do you find community if maybe community is a construct? How do you take care of yourself during quarantimes if you're alone and you have to allocate your resources? How can you take care of anyone if you're not taking care of yourself (spoiler alert: you can't). It's an incredibly int...

Quick update about the pod schedule going forward and if you would like to sign up for the newsletter - click here!  It will be informative and fun! Quizzes! We all love quizzes!  LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Alexis Hyde - @ hydeordie , alexishyde.com    Dr. Erika Wong; - @ topractisepractice , https://topractisepractice.com/ Slack channel: topractiseapractice.slack.com&...

This week we talk to former fashion photographer and current producer/art consultant/all around incredible creative Jacopo Moschin ! We go through his incredible creative artist journey to where he is now and how through pursuing all of his passions (like a child on a playground!) he was able to build a stimulating community that supports all his new ventures! It's a memorable conversation go...

This week we have Founder and CEO of Fohr , James Nord , gracing our ears with wisdom, wit and y'all can't see it but a wicked sense of style. It's incredible how well dressed he is all the time. ANYWHO- we talk about building your own community, the power artists and creatives have with social media, the questions to ask yourself when you're posting and how to create a space where people want to...

This week we got to talk to Reilly Clark, one of the co-founders of Passage Arts , which is exciting because talk about building your OWN COMMUNITY - they are working on helping artists AND collectors (new and established) navigate the art world on new paths and it is a gorgeous journey. Why do we need new paths? WELL TUNE IN AND LEARN! We talk about gatekeeping, we talk about tech stuff, we talk...

OK, so the Beeple Bubble may be popping or popping off depending on which side of the NFT debate you are on, but the real question for a lot of us is What are NFTs? We know it's crypto, we may know it's Non-Fungible Tokens, we may not! This has been introduced and accelerated at Formula 1 speed so if you missed it, dont' feel bad we have a solid episode with the wonderous Clara Peh, who is smart a...

We interviewed Pae White and Alexis didn't spontaneously combust so in general, that's a huge win! She talks to us about finding community in unlikely places during the pandemic, building her studio up from a solo venture to the multinational operation it is now, learning about contracts and looking to friends for advice. Also mushrooms, a lot of mushrooms. This is an incredibly informative and ge...

Strap in guys, we have an incredible interview with multimedia artist and disability activist Sharona Franklin ! We'll get it out of the way and say yes, we do talk about how she (one artist, disabled body, in Canada) is taking on Gucci! We also talk about community, support, teachers, education in general, access and a whole mess of incredible topics. When you get to the end you'll see how we had...

Wow guys, wow. This week we talk to Kate Armstrong who is the Director of The Emily Carr School's Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship Living Labs - and ooohweee are we talking about getting y'all on the paths of SUCCESS! We go over where to find tools and community and she has answers. As generous as it is informative, this is a great listen for everyone (even seasoned pros! We need refres...

BUCKLE UP GUYS THIS IS A GOOD ONE! We talk to Amani Olu , of Olu Company ,   IMG SRVR and Detroit Art Week and his advice on failure and hustling and money should not be ignored, I mean, look how many hats he wears! It's really incredible to talk to Olu about interacting with other humans in life and how that translates to our lives and where we can go with those experiences. We talk about wh...

Welcome to Season 4 where we are talking all about COMMUNITY! What is it? Where is yours? How do you find it? This week we talk to conservator and entrepreneur Ben Fino-Radin about all things community and it is BOUNTIFUL! No joke, look at all the references below. We aren't messing around, not to say we aren't having fun! But we are snarky because we CARE SO MUCH! We are all about asking for help...

LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Alexis Hyde - @ hydeordie , alexishyde.com    Dr. Erika Wong; - @ topractisepractice , www.topractisepractice.com  Slack channel: topractiseapractice.slack.com   Email us: hydeorpractise@gmail.com Music by Cheap TV - @ cheaptv_official , https://cheaptvmusic.com /

This week Alexis and Erika speak with Arts Professional Jane McCarthy and it is a PLEASURE! Jane has a Masters, has worked with museums, galleries, artists, now at UCLA, like...could you ask for a more well-rounded and seasoned interviewee to round out Season 3? It would be a TOUGH JOB! She is eloquent and her advice is SOUND and she is in Hawaii right now riding out the quarantimes so she obvious...